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The Chinese Medical Classics. - Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : University of California Press, 1998, 8°, XIII, 513 pp., orig. Leinenband mit Schutzumschlag. First Edition! Including 2 appendices, bibliography, index of prescriptions (Chinese), index of prescriptions (English), and general index. "The Yin-hai jing-wei is a classical text of traditional Chinese ophthalmology, compiled in its present version in or around the fifteenth century. For the past three hundred years, the authorship of the Yin-hai jing-wei has been assigned to the famous Tang physician Sun Si-miao, an association that does not withstand historical scrutiny. Obviously different traditions of thought and clinical practice were collated in this book. The Yin-haijing-wei is offered here in a strictly philological translation. At a time when an interest in approaches to illness and healing different from those developed in Europe and North America has directed attention to Chinese medicine, it is most important to carefully analyze the historical origins of a health care that is seen by many as a possible alternative to current Western paradigms. The Yin-hai jing-wei is a rich source of a subspecialty of Chinese medicine lending itself to far-reaching comparisons: first, of physiological, pathological, and clinical knowledge concerning the illnesses of the eye as developed in China and the West; second, of more general issues in the history of medicine and science in China and the West; and, third, of the images widespread in the West of Chinese medicine on the one side, and their historical facticity, on the other. The Yin-hai jing-wei offers valuable insights into the problematic relationship between notions of function and morphological structure in traditional Chinese medicine, as well as into the integration of foreign (mainly Indian) concepts and practices into ancient Chinese ophthalmological reasoning and health care. The text does not contain a single reference to acupuncture, a therapeutic method so closely identified with Chinese medicine today. Rather, it provides ample evidence of the importance ol surgica interventions in the treatment of the eye. The most prominentmodof therapy advocated in the Kn-hai jing-wei, though, consists in the application of a wide variety of herbal, mineral, and animal substances. Clinicians of traditional Chinese medicine may find it worthwhile to examine the internal approach to the treatment of numerous eye afflictions characterizing this text. In its transmission through the centuries, the Yin-hai jing-wei has be reprinted in numerous editions, documenting the widespread appeal of this text to Chinese practitioners. The present translation is based on a synopsjs of five different editions (see the Bibliography), with occasional reference to still others. All textual differences have been pointed out in the notes accompanying the translation." Jürgen Kovacs & Paul U. Unschuld, Preface. …